Dermatomyositis

A type of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy characterized by evocative skin lesions and symmetrical proximal muscle weakness.

Myopathy

A disorder of muscle unrelated to impairment of innervation or neuromuscular junction.


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PMID (PMCID)
30783329
FEMALE Middle Aged
A case of capecitabine-induced dermatomyositis.
Saraswat N, Verma R, Neema S, Kumar S.
Indian J Pharmacol. 2018;50(6):350-353.
Dermatomyositis (DM) is an idiopathic, inflammatory connective tissue disorder characterized by symmetrical proximal myopathy and characteristic skin involvement.
30515341
(6236921)
OTHER
Clinically Amyopathic Dermatomyositis Caused by a Tattoo.
Han B, Guo Q.
Case Rep Rheumatol. 2018;2018:7384681.
It is characterized by the specific skin lesions of dermatomyositis (DM) without clinical or laboratory evidence of myopathy.
28533643
(5439209)
OTHER
Unsuspected Active Ulcerative Colitis in a Patient With Dermatomyositis: A Rare Association Detected on 18F-FDG PET/CT During the Search for an Occult Malignancy.
Rayamajhi SJ, Gorla AKR, Basher RK, Sood A, Mittal BR.
Indian J Nucl Med. 2017;32(2):130-132.
Dermatomyositis is an inflammatory myopathy with the characteristic features of skin rash and myopathy.
27922497
MIXED_SAMPLE Middle Aged
Autoimmune Myopathies.
Mammen AL.
Continuum (Minneap Minn). 2016;22(6, Muscle and Neuromuscular Junction Disorders):1852-1870.
The most common subtypes of autoimmune myopathies are dermatomyositis, immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy, antisynthetase syndrome, and overlap syndromes; isolated polymyositis is an exceptionally rare disease.
27561848
(5000476)
FEMALE Adult
Dermatomyositis with anti-TIF-1gamma antibodies as a presenting symptom of underlying triple-negative breast cancer: a case report.
Kubeek O, Soukup T, Paulik A, Kopecky J.
BMC Cancer. 2016;16(1):684.
Dermatomyositis is an autoimmune myopathy characterized by proximal muscle weakness, muscle inflammation, and typical skin findings.
27790119
(5075726)
OTHER
Paraneoplastic Dermatomyositis in Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Colonic Perforation: A Case Report.
Miyata N, Emoto K, Dei Y, Tomiyasu K, Ishiyama R, Horie T, Sakai G, Tahara T.
Case Rep Oncol. 2016;9(3):547-553.
Dermatomyositis (DM) is an autoimmune disease characterized by cutaneous Gottron papules, heliotrope rash, and proximal myopathy.
27438215
(4938292)
FEMALE Middle Aged
Syndrome in question.
Esposito AC, Munhoz T, Ocanha JP, Miot HA.
An Bras Dermatol. 2016;91(3):387-9.
Dermatomyositis is a rare inflammatory disease, autoimmune, with proximal myopathy associated with characteristic dermatological manifestations.
27583093
(4992399)
FEMALE Adult
[Paraneoplastic dermatomyositis revealing an undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma: about a case].
Ziani FZ, Brahmi SA, Najib R, Kanab R, Arifi S, Mernissi FZ, Mellas N.
Pan Afr Med J. 2016;24:29.
Dermatomyositis (DM) is an inflammatory disease of unknown origin that manifests as a myopathy associated with typical skin lesions.
25654011
OTHER
Radiographic patterns of soft tissue calcinosis in juvenile dermatomyositis and its clinical implications.
Sanyal S, Atwal SS, Mondal D, Garga UC.
J Clin Diagn Res. 2014;8(12):RD08-11.
Four distinct patterns of calcinosis have been described in relation to dermatomyositis which need to be differentiated from other aetiologies of soft tissue calcification and myopathies.
23618805
MIXED_SAMPLE Adult
Antisynthethase syndrome presenting as peripheral limb fasciitis.
Ebbo M, Chagnaud C, Figarella-Branger D, Legall S, Harle JR, Schleinitz N.
Joint Bone Spine. 2013;80(5):528-30.
As in dermatomyositis, polymyositis and overlap myopathies proximal muscle of the limbs are preferentialy involved.
23580790
MALE Middle Aged
Statin-associated polymyositis following omeprazole treatment.
Kanth R, Shah MS, Flores RM.
Clin Med Res. 2013;11(2):91-5.
Inflammatory myopathies, including polymyositis, dermatomyositis, and necrotizing autoimmune myopathy, are even more rare, but debilitating, side effects of statin therapy that are characterized by the persistence of symptoms even after discontinuation of the drug.
22732950
(3726263)
MIXED_SAMPLE Middle Aged
A novel dermato-pulmonary syndrome associated with MDA-5 antibodies: report of 2 cases and review of the literature.
Chaisson NF, Paik J, Orbai AM, Casciola-Rosen L, Fiorentino D, Danoff S, Rosen A.
Medicine (Baltimore). 2012;91(4):220-8.
Virtually all patients have underlying dermatomyositis, but many lack the characteristic clinical myopathy associated with it.
24847543
MALE
[Dermatomyositis: a paraneoplastic symptom].
Benito Alonso E, Hidalgo Vera P, Ontanon Nasarre B, Bronchalo Gonzalez C.
Semergen. 2012;38(1):60-3.
Dermatomyositis is an idiopathic myopathy mainly consisting of proximal muscle weakness, associated with skin lesions.
21779715
MALE
Paraneoplastic vesiculobullous dermatomyositis with synchronic prostate and tongue tumors: case report.
Caratta PR, Mafort T, Pamplona M, Schau B, Estrella RR, Ramos RC.
Rev Bras Reumatol. 2011;51(4):394-6, 407.
We report the case of a 72-year-old male, who developed dermatomyositis, initially with only classic skin findings, which progressed to vesiculobullous lesions, and, months later, to myopathy.
19471933
MIXED_SAMPLE Adult
Dermatomyositis associated with acute myelocytic leukemia.
Shrivastav A, Kumar V, Pal J.
Rheumatol Int. 2010;30(5):671-3.
Polymyositis (PM) and dermatomyositis (DM) are inflammatory myopathic diseases characterized by symmetric, proximal myopathy with or without a distinct cutaneous eruption.
20376685
FEMALE
Dermatomyositis complicated with hemorrhagic shock of the iliopsoas muscle on both sides and the thigh muscle.
Miwa Y, Muramatsu M, Takahashi R, Wakabayashi K, Odai T, Isozaki T, Yajima N, Kasama T.
Mod Rheumatol. 2010;20(4):420-2.
A 65-year-old Japanese woman, diagnosed with dermatomyositis with myopathy and characteristic skin lesion, was intravenously administered methylprednisolone 500 mg per day for 3 days, followed by prednisolone 60 mg po per day.
19623629
MALE Middle Aged
Dermatomyositis with inclusion body myositis pathology.
Layzer R, Lee HS, Iverson D, Margeta M.
Muscle Nerve. 2009;40(3):469-71.
A 63-year-old man developed a severe, rapidly progressive myopathy with clinical features typical of dermatomyositis (DM), but muscle pathology was typical of IBM.
19586495
MALE Adult
Fulminant and accelerated presentation of dermatomyositis in two previously healthy young adult males: a potential role for endotheliotropic viral infection.
Magro CM, Iwenofu OH, Kerns MJ, Kearns MJ, Nuovo GJ, Dyrsen ME, Segal JP.
J Cutan Pathol. 2009;36(8):853-8.
Dermatomyositis (DM) is a prototypic autoimmune syndrome, whereby immune-based microvascular injury is critical in the pathogenesis of skin lesions and the myopathy.
16643611
MALE
Identification of autoantibodies elicited in a patient with prostate cancer presenting as dermatomyositis.
Mooney CJ, Dunphy EJ, Stone B, McNeel DG.
Int J Urol. 2006;13(3):211-7.
Our results demonstrate that this patient with prostate cancer presenting as dermatomyositis had autoantibodies to specific proteins, possibly associated with his autoimmune myopathy.
16885848
FEMALE Middle Aged
[Regression of primary melanoma with metastases associated with amyopathic dermatomyositis].
Villers A, Lami MC, Filoche P, Milinkevitch S, Goujon JM, Guillet G.
Ann Dermatol Venereol. 2006;133(6-7):573-6.
A 48 year-old woman presented with a 3-year history of cutaneous rash without myopathy characteristic of amyopathic dermatomyositis.